Skylights miss out on national tourney bid

The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team had a great season. A truly remarkable season which culminated with a run to the Frontier Conference semifinals.

Unfortunately, the Skylights' season officially ended on Wednesday night. The NAIA released the qualifiers for the 2012 NAIA national tournament, which will run March 12-20 in Jackson, Tenn., and despite winning 21 games, the Skylights were not selected as an at-large team. The process for selecting at-large teams has the teams in the final coaches poll which did not earn automatic bids to the tourney swallowing up the...